| Dinosaur
IsleOn
Holiday In the Isle of Wight
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Dinosaur Isle is an impressive, £2.7 million lottery-funded exhibition set
up in Sandown on the Isle of Wight. | |
| The
impressive building itself is designed in the shape of a pterosaur and you cant
miss it if you're on a holiday walk along the sea front at Sandown! |
Megalosaurus Neovenator Eotyrannus Iguanadon
& Hypsilophodon Polacanthus
& Other Bits |
| | | The
Dinosaur centre contains a stunning array of skeletal and flesh reconstructions
as well as a wealth of supplementary information and artefacts. |
| It
is fitting that Megalosaurus is the first dinosaur that greets you as you enter
the main hall of dinosaur isle. It is a great animal in a beautiful pose. |
| Neovenator
is a previously unknown theropod species. 6-8m in length, about 750kg. 2.2m high
at the hip, with 5cm long teeth and 13cm long claws. It
was the major carnivore in the Early Cretaceous (132-100 million years ago). |
| Eotyrannus
is a primitive tyrannosauroid. This model forms part of the central display, facing
a full-sized Iguanadon. | |
Iguanadon
neck vertebrae, a full wall-mounted Iguanadon skeleton and the natural cast of
a footprint. Hypsilophodon
still in matrix and model. | | Polacanthus
reconstruction, spikes and parts of its armour, and skull of similar dinosaur. Wall-mounted
sauropod as discovered and miniature T rex skull. | |
